SpamSieve: On the good side, it has quietly kept spam email out of my face for years and continues to pay for itself. On the bad side, there are a few types of bad email that it has been unable to properly identify.

Every once in a while, I will open my SPAM folder and watch SpamSieve populating it. I smile.

For a $30 app, this seems like an absolute steal of a deal for a problem that almost everyone faces. If you use email, I highly recommend SpamSieve. If you don’t use email, I’d love to know how you managed that.

For those that need to edit Office documents while mobile, here are a few iOS app options.

For Free

Documents Free syncs to Dropbox, Google Drive, and Skydrive. This is a no frills solution.

Quickoffice was independent but is now owned by Google and will only sync to Drive. Since I am moving away from all Google services, I am biased against this app.

For a Fee

Polaris Office is on sale at this moment for a buck. It looks like they are preparing for a new version and want to get the word out beforehand.

Docs To Go Premium is the cream of the crop. Dataviz has been around since 1984 and is good at coding usable apps. There is a less expensive version but I am only considering apps here that sync to a cloud service.

The National Library of Norway’s vision is to act as a national memory bank by providing a multimedia knowledge centre focusing on archiving and distribution. To achieve this vision the National Library of Norway shall be a modern digital national library – and thus a new form of national library.

“For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher… however, after discussions, both parties have decided not to renew the agreement,” said Gerard Baker, editor in chief of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.
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Mr. Mossberg and Ms. Swisher are in negotiations with investors and media companies, including Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, for their next partnership, according to a person familiar with the matter.

But 13 years is a long time to stay in one place; we all thrive on new experiences. So I was intrigued when Yahoo invited me to help build a new consumer-tech site. Actually, “site” doesn’t even cover it. I’ll be writing columns and blog posts each week, of course, and making my goofy videos. But my team and I have much bigger plans, too, for all kinds of online and real-world creations.

I am not a fan of how intrusive Google Glass appears to be but reporting from a war zone seems like an ideal use case. I wholeheartedly approve.

“When there’s a wall of police firing plastic bullets at you, and you’re running through a wall of tear-gas, having your hands free to cover your face, while saying ‘OK Glass, record a video’, makes that recording process a lot easier,” he says.